You might not have noticed, but I am now running the tranquileye weblog using the combination of Newspro and the wonders of XSSI. On Sunday, after having carefully cut and paste and cleaned up a year's worth of entries and news items into the Newspro flatfile database, and having set up the include on my homepage, it was inevitable that something would go wrong, and it did, in the form of fried settings file. An hour later, though, everything was back to normal.

I am very impressed with the flexibility and extensibility of Newspro. There are a number of third-party add-on modules for everything from checking spelling to sending out email noifitcation to a list when news is added. Greymatter may be prettier and certainly works fine, but for what I want to do Newspro is the bomb.

There is still work to be done. My archives, which run back to the winter of 1993, have not made their way into the database, and it will take some weeks to wade through them. I also have to find some happy way of getting the two <br> tags Newspro inserts between paragraphs converted to a single XHTML <p />.